Agathe Toman - ÉTÉ #012

First digital work by artist Agathe Toman generated by AI. Digital drawing. Pixelated details, and the use of Benday dots throughout the entire piece. Fine art photo paper with glossy satin finish.
Signature bottom right. Numbering bottom left. Signed and numbered, dated on the back.
Printed in France. Certificate of authenticity completed and signed by the artist.
Sold unframed.

BIOGRAPHY OF THE ARTIST AGATHE TOMAN CÔTÉE AT SOTHEBY’S since 2021:
Born in 1989, of French, Austrian, and Czech origins, Agathe Toman is a French multidisciplinary artist whose talent spans from painting to poetry, through drawing and photography. Based between Hossegor and Paris, Agathe asserts herself as an up-and-coming figure on the contemporary art scene, admired both nationally and internationally.

Côtière at Sotheby’s since 2021, her works have been auctioned three times, testifying to her rapid rise and acceptance in prestigious art circles. Her notable contributions to various fairs, including Art Paris, have earned her immense success, solidifying her presence in private collections around the world.

Agathe’s palette favors deep shades of black and blue, colors that are the essence of her creation. Her paintings use pure pigments and intensely concentrated acrylics, while her drawings, made with Bic ballpoint pen, captivate with their hypnotic character. Agathe’s photographs, of astonishing depth, as well as her poems’ kaleidoscopes, enrich her universe with an abstract language that defines her work.

Beyond her artistic practice, Agathe is deeply engaged in the study of psychoanalysis, which she has pursued for three years. This exploration enriches her conceptual process, allowing her to integrate profound psychological dimensions into her art.

Agathe does not separate her art from her social commitments. With unwavering determination, she focuses her work on crucial themes such as mental health and the environment. These lines of thought are not only present in her art; they are an integral part of her artistic identity.

Her work has been recognized and celebrated in several renowned publications, including Forbes, L’Oeil, and Elle, marking her notable impact in the field of contemporary art.

Agathe Toman continues to fascinate and inspire a global audience, offering through her works a window into the complexity of human experience, as she perceives it and transforms it into art.

"MY VISION:

My work focuses on the notion of the links between the psyche and the body. Their modes of functioning together within their environments, the connections they build, and the elaboration of tangible and intangible vibrations that arise from them.
I explore themes such as identity, memory, human nature and the relationship between the individual and their environment. My works are imbued with emotional depth and a certain tension, inviting the viewer to an introspective reflection.

I place this will into the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, in monochromes, nuanced, where darkness coexists with clarity, blue crackles in contact with black, or lights up on its own. We are in the absence/presence of light.
My paintings, drawings, and photographs are each an absolute creation, free from imitation.

A meticulous affinity between my hands and pigments, charcoal, ballpoint pen, and paints applied on paper or canvas. My execution techniques never repeat, and the result is always foreign. I thus work to fix the movement of matter, the density of light, to infuse myself into it, for the creation of your memory.
There is always something one did not suspect. Something unexpected. This ineffable thing.
The emergence of a decidedly unique imprint, my works are self-portraits, portraits of parts of myself.

I say that my creations are “materializations of psychic states,” human landscapes, threads of my soul, inviting others to merge with them.
Their value is not aesthetic; it lies in the vibrations my works create in the viewer. These are two sensibilities meeting, no longer two separate individuals. It is a living process. I regard them as active beings, forging new links between Us. The viewer becomes a creator of the work as it comes to life.
I commit to a path toward a new vision of Being, of the world, of oneself, and of others.

If the viewer lets themselves be invited, psychic resonances align in a single symphony, a dialogue begins to take root. An anamorphosis of their soul takes shape, an elusive reflection. It is a poetic experience. A powerful and intense presence. A demanding experience.

I want my works to refine human minds, sharpen souls, and for emotions to find an echo, so that words resonate there.
What is important is what the work mobilizes in us, and the result of that encounter."

"Psychic suffering is linked to everything that escapes the process of subjectivizing symbolization. We suffer from what is psychically blocked or awaiting psychic inscription. The human being does not suffer only because of events, or because of certain thoughts, but because some processes within them have not found a mirror, an echo, a listening, a receptacle and remain in dereliction." René Roussillon - Manual of psychology and psychopathology of general clinical practice, page 146.